White-cheeked Warbler
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The white-cheeked wood warbler ( Myioborus albifacies ) is a small songbird from the genus Myioborus in the wood warbler family (Parulidae). This species is one of four warbler species on the tepuis in Venezuela occur and is usually as part of the Super species around the Cardona Warbler ( Myioborus cardonai ) and gold eyes Warbler ( Myioborus pariae seen). Some authors consider the white-cheeked wood warbler and the Cardona wood warbler as conspecific . The IUCN currently lists them as “not endangered” (least concern) despite their small distribution area.
features
White-cheeked warbler reach a body length of 13 centimeters. The wing length is 6.4 centimeters in the male, no information is recorded in the female. Adult white-cheeked warblers and young birds from the first year on have a black forehead, black crown plumage and upper black nape plumage. Through the characteristic white part of the face; including the reins , the eye and cheek area and the ear covers, it is easy to distinguish from the closely related Cardona wood warbler. The lower neck plumage and the upper side plumage are gray to dark gray. The wings are blackish with narrow dark gray feather edges. The upper tail-coverts and the tail with external white tail feathers are also blackish. The underside plumage is orange-yellow and the under tail-coverts are white. The beak and legs are blackish.
Occurrence
Little is known about the white-cheeked wood warbler. They occur in cloud forests and humid mountain forests mainly on Cerro Yaví, Cerro Sipapo and Cerro Guanay at altitudes of 900 to 2250 meters in southern Venezuela and, like the Cardona wood warbler, probably feed mainly on insects . The breeding behavior has not been investigated in detail.
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literature
- Jon Curson, David Quinn, David Beadle: New World Warblers. Helm, London 1994, ISBN 0-7136-3932-6 , pp. 72 and 199.
Web links
- Myioborus albifacies in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2009. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2009. Retrieved on December 30 of 2009.